Images of the American Revolution



Images of the American Revolution

At the New Jersey Shore and Pinelands

We are proud to announce the “Images of the American Revolution: The New Jersey Shore and Pinelands” a series of original acrylic illustrations by internationally renowned artist Louis Glanzman. The collection of moving and inspiring vignettes should help to illustrate and make legitimate the forgotten chapter of American and New Jersey History.

Through a serendipitous set of circumstances, Mr. Glanzman has begun a series of illustrations of largely unknown land and sea engagements that took place during the American War of Independence along the New Jersey Shore and adjacent Pinelands. The often bitter civil war that waged between Patriots, Loyalists, and non-violent Quakers has been largely ignored by popular history despite the important issues of privateers and the competition for bog iron, sea salt, charcoal, and other supplies.

Mr. Glanzman has embraced this project as part of his dedication to history and as a labor of love. He has agreed to accept a token payment for each work ($1,000 per painting), far below his professional remuneration. We are hoping to pair possible sponsors with topics. Each painting will be owned by a New Jersey non-profit organization. The Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission will be the default owner of paintings. The paintings will then be circulated throughout the county for educational purposes. Many of the paintings will be displayed at the Cedar Bridge Tavern when eventually converted into an interpretive center.

We are hoping that Mr. Glanzman will do a series of from ten to fourteen illustrations of the important vignettes that are important to Ocean County, New Jersey, and American history. We are seeking sponsors for these works. The topics can be modified to meet the needs or desires of the sponsors.

Potential Sponsors or representatives of places that would like to display these illustrations should contact Timothy Hart 732-929-4779 or thart@co.ocean.nj.us

Mr. Glanzman has completed the following paintings:

1) The Affair at Long Beach – or the Barnegat Light Massacre

October 26, 1782 – Depicts the aftermath of the attack by Captain John Bacon and his loyalists leaving dead and wounded of the privateer Alligator (captains David Scull and John Conover, lieutenant Andrew Steelman, and members of the Manahawkin Militia)

Sponsors: Friends of Barnegat Lighthouse, Roberta Krantz, Linda Starzman, Matilda Mangum, Michael Mangum, and Michael Spiecker.

2) The Affair at Cedar Bridge Creek – December 27, 1782

The first known illustration of what some historians consider the last land engagement of the American War of Independence. Members of the Burlington Militia under Captain Richard Shreve and Captain Edward Thomas engaged Notorious Captain John Bacon and a band of Loyalists.

Sponsor: Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission

Potential Additional Illustrations and possible sponsors:

There is no intention to make all of these and the vignettes can be modified for dramatic and historic affect.

1) Toms River Blockhouse – March 17, 1782

In front of a background of the Blockhouse, Garret Irons unsuccessfully attempt to convince Joshua Huddy that he has just run nine miles to warn his fellow militia that he has spotted the Loyalist marching overland intending to raze the town.

Alternate: murder of Captain that did not fight

Potential Sponsors: Ocean County Historical Society, Toms River Downtown Business District, Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, Toms River Rotary.

2) Death of Joshua Huddy – April 12, 1782

The extra legal execution (hanging) of patriot Joshua Huddy in retaliation for the death of Loyalist Philip White. He dictates his will from the gallows. The soldiers refuse to perform the act and Lippencott personally performs the act. The incident becomes an international crisis delaying peace negotiations for several months.

Potential Sponsors: Monmouth County Historical Society, DAR

3) Death of John Bacon at Rose’s Tavern – April 3, 1783

Killed while resisting arrest by members of the Burlington Militia.

Bacon feigns death on the floor and jumps towards the window to escape only to be stabbed and shot

Potential Sponsors: Tuckerton Historical Society, Little Egg Harbor, Great Bay Rotary, Tuckerton Seaport

3) Bacons Body at Manahawkin – April 1783

Outside Manahawkin’s Randolph’s Tavern, the lifeless body of notorious Captain John Bacon is subject to the humiliation of forcing him to take strong spirits (Jersey Lightning). His body has been unceremoniously flung in a hand drawn cart to parade through the towns to prove that he is vanquished. He was a constant thorn in the side of the Manahawkin Militia (company 5 – 2nd Monmouth militia)

Potential Sponsors: Southern Ocean Rotary, Stafford Historical

4) Burial of Captain John Bacon at Arneytown –

As a "traitor" the patriots wanted to bury his body at an intersection of well traveled roads on non-hollowed ground so that his soul will not rest. His brother successfully pleads with the patriots to turn the body over to him for proper burial in the Quaker meeting house.

Potential Sponsors: Burlington Historical Society, Family of Bacon, Burlington County Parks

5) Cornel Tye: “Black Caesar” – June 1, 1780

Formerly “owned” by John Corlies, Titus leads a raid on the home of Joshua Huddy at his Shrewsbury home. Cornel Tye receives a flesh wound that rapidly leads to his death through a case of lock-jaw.

Potential Sponsors: Monmouth County Historical Society, others

6) Defense of Tuckerton – October 15, 1778

Kashmir Pulaski rides to the scene of fleeing British troops and the

Wounded and dying members of his outpost.

Potential Sponsors: Tuckerton Seaport, Affair at Egg Harbor, Society of Cincinnati, Tuckerton Historical Society

7) British burn the Zebra – October, 1778

British expedition commanded by Captain Fergusen

Potential Sponsors: Society of Cincinnati, Affair at Egg Harbor Historical Society, Tuckerton Seaport, Tuckerton Historical Society

8) Death of Davenport – June 1, 1782

After his successful raid on Lacey Twp, Loyalist Captain Davenport is shot by a swivel gun on a patriot whaleboat in shallow water. His boat is overturned, but his men walk back to shore in chest high water

Potential Sponsors: Lacey Historical Society, Lacey Rotary

9) Death of Lt. Joshua Studson –

John Bacon enters recorded history with the capture of his whaleboat and murder of John Studson in Cranberry Inlet

Potential Sponsors: Pt. Pleasant Historical Society, Bay Head Historical Society,

10) Bacon at Manahawkin – December 3, 1781

As Bacon and his troops triumphantly exit the town, between the Free Church of Manahawkin and Randolph’s Tavern, the Manahawkin Militia recovers the wounded. Lines Pangborn is dead and a doctor passes a silk scarf through the shoulder wound of Sylvester Tilton.

Potential Sponsors: Stafford Twp Historical Society,

10) Auction of Lucy at Toms River – March 16, 1782

The Patriots auction the privateer Lucy on the Toms River docks with the Blockhouse on the hill above. Loyalist Captain Dillon is so upset by the capture and sale of his privateer that puts into motion the attack on Toms River Blockhouse and the death of Joshua Huddy.

Potential Sponsors: Ocean County Historical Society, Toms River Rotary

11) Tilton Seeks Revenge on Brewer –

Ten years after being wounded at Manahawkin, Tilton walks from Manahawkin to Shrewsbury to settle the score with Brewer, the man who shot him. The story is that a minister encounters Tilton and Tilton does not kill Brown but severely beats him.

Potential Sponsors: Shrewsbury Historical Society,

12) Benedict Arnold’s Wagons Flee the Forks – October 1778

With warehouses and ships at dockside in the background and scurrying townspeople unloading ships at the Forks, wagons belonging to General Arnold take his personal belongings away from the invading British at Chestnut Neck.

Potential Sponsors: Friends of Batsto,

14) Bacon arrives in New York – January 1783

Notorious Captain John Bacon arrives in his whale boat the Black Joke or the Hero’s Revenge at Loyalist enclave of New York City.

Potential Sponsor:

15) Bacon at Wreck on Long Beach Island –

Young girl recognizes notorious John Bacon among those assisting with the unloading of a ship wreck off Brant Beach, New Jersey

Potential Sponsors: LBI Rotary,

16) Bacon and followers before fire at sandstone cave

Captain John Bacon huddles with his followers before a fire in a ravine outside their Sandstone Ledge cave.

Potential Sponsors:

17) John Bacon binds his protagonist Captain Rueben Randolph to a tree in the middle of the Hawkin Swamp

Potential Sponsors:

18) Patriots, Loyalists, & a boat –

Captures the bizarre incident of 2 patriots surprises by two loyalists who attempt to take their boat and fish and have the tables turned on them.

Potential Sponsors:

19) Bacon’s Men Shoot at Crane through his window

The civil war at the shore is illustrated by the unplanned shooting at Silas Crane through his window by passing Loyalists.

Potential Sponsors:

20) Settle the Score – Rueben Randolph and the Manahawkin Militia walk ten miles to Clamtown (Tuckerton) to settle the score with John Bacon and his men at the Tavern. Apparently, Bacon and his men simply put down their drinks, walk outside the tavern, defeat the Manahawkin soldiers and then return to their drinks. The Manahawkin Militia will need to walk 10 miles home in humiliating defeat.

Potential Sponsors:

21) Bacon Intimidates Soper Family

Mrs. Soper holds off John Bacon with a shirt and a few coins while Mr. Soper hides the money in the ground while informant Wilson looks on at the Soper Boat works.

Potential Sponsors:

22) Petition to Governor Livingston – November 12, 1781

Patriots meet at Randolph’s tavern to sign a petition to Governor Livingston seeking relief from the “Unhame and Savage” treatment by Bacon and his Loyalists.

Potential Sponsors:

Although his epic historical paintings have appeared in most of America's

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Louis S. Glanzman

Louis S. Glanzman, is an internationally recognized illustrator who was a contemporary of Norman Rockwell (they were actually friends and Mr. Glanzman actually did a cover for National Lampoon Magazine satirizing Rockwell’s style). To illustrate how famous Mr. Glanzman is: he did the cover of Time Magazine for the 1969 Moon Landing. He and his wife Fran live in Medford, New Jersey and often drive to LBI and have dinner. On one such trip they were in Barnegat Light and saw the sign indicating the site of the Barnegat Light Massacre. Mr. Glanzman did a painting of the scene and the Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission was contacted among others to help find an appropriate home for the scene. Mr. Glanzman requested more information on scenes from what is now Ocean County during the American War of Independence. He has been presented with research materials from the Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission, a copy of A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties by Edwin Salter, and a copy of the Toms River Block House DVD.

From his website

Although his epic historical paintings have appeared in most of America's national magazines, his work has been published throughout Europe as well. He has appeared for three consecutive years in the 'JCA' Japanese Art Annual.

Glanzman was born in 1922, raised in the farmlands of Virginia; he is a self educated artist. He began his career at the age of sixteen as a comic book illustrator. In the 40's he served as an illustrator on the Air Force magazine for the US Air Forces. During the 50's he illustrated numerous children's books, including the popular 'Pippi Longstocking' series. He is listed in 'Illustrators of Children Books.' Always working as a free-lance illustrator, his paintings have appeared in Readers Digest, True, Argosey, Colliers, Boys Life, New Yorker, National Lampoon, Saturday Evening Post, etc. His career led him for a short sojourn as a court reporter for Life magazine. The covers for Time magazine enhanced his career as a portrait painter, and he is a member of the 'American Portrait Society.'

Glanzman's paintings and portraits are an integral part of many private and national collections throughout the United States. He has won awards from the Society of Illustrators, Art Directors Club, and the Salmagundi Club. His paintings are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., Tennessee State Art Museum, Nashville, Tenn., Nat'l Monument, Columbus, Ohio, United States Air Force Historical Foundation, Colorado, New York City Museum, Civil War Museum, Fredericksburg, Va., Sitka, Alaska, Ford Theater, Washington, D.C., Independence Park, Philadelphia, Pa., and Taos, New Mexico. Noted as one of America's most prolific illustrators and acclaimed portrait painters he is deeply proud of his many historical paintings. Glanzman seeks to follow the path laid by Pyle and Rockwell with much affection for Hokusai and Picasso.

As a southern born artist, Glanzman was deeply moved by the development of American jazz. He knew and painted many of the inventors and pioneers of this cultural art form. This led to his love of American history.

After a painting trip to the Far East for the Air Force Historical Foundation, he decided to travel through Europe. With his love for all people around the world, and his talent for recording them, he was commissioned to illustrate books and articles for the National Geographic Society.

As the spirit of American history was reawakened in the United States many American illustrators moved west to become western realist painters. Though Glanzman had been there often he remained behind to paint western scenes from afar. Most notable were a series of paintings for Bantam Publishers of Louis L'Amour's famous western stories. For Glanzman all of the United States was historical.

In the 60's he was commissioned to paint the Civil War for Life magazine, National Geographic Society and the Department of the Interior. During this same period he was actively involved in the unfolding history of the'American Cultural Revolution' and painted over eighty covers for Time magazine. Most prominent were presidents, elections of presidents, and the historical landing on the moon of Neil Armstrong. History by now became his passion. More books and articles for National Geographic on American Independence and a number of paintings commissioned by the Parks Department were executed for several museums around the United States.

Two more bi-centennial covers for Time magazine, one of George Washington, and one of Thomas Jefferson finally culminated in the painting of the 'Signing of the Constitution' commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to be installed in Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Recently in 2002, his 13 portrait series of the Women of the New Testament became the basis for a book of spiritual reflections entitled 'Soul Sisters.'

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